With the news announced today that the visionary designer Es Devlin has been appointed Designer for the Olympic Closing Ceremony we can rest assured that LOCOG have guaranteed the Olympics will go out with a bang.

Devlin is without doubt one of Britain's most talented designers. Most of us will have come across her designs in one form or another – among an impressive number of huge pop shows, she's worked on Lady Gaga's Monster Ball tour (2009/2010), Take That's Circus Tour (2009), Kanye West's Glow in the Dark tour (2007) and has designed hundreds of opera and theatre productions. Her sets will also be seen later this year throughout the world in the tour of Batman Live, which premieres at the M. E. N arena in Manchester in July.

The Kent-born designer started in the 90s in humble beginnings at the Bush Theatre in London – a tiny 81 seat theatre. Her work with Lady Gaga and Kanye West shows Devlin as a designer able to rise to a challenge, unafraid to reach into the unknown and use her visionary imagination. In Kanye West's Glow in the Dark tour West asked her to create a set to accommodate only him onstage for the entire show – very unusual, and very difficult to pull off, for such a large-scale pop show.

Having won TPi Stage Designer of the Year the last two years running Devlin is certainly hot property but she's obviously excited to be a part of the Olympic project: ‘I am delighted to be part of 'the greatest show on earth'. We are envisaging a truly imaginative celebration and I’m honoured to be part of the team.’

The designer works a lot with digital video and projections, as well as creating huge stand alone sets such as the ones which will be seen for Batman. So it's very difficult to predict what form the closing show might take.

Devlin and Kim Gavin, also appointed today as Artistic Director of the Closing Ceremonies for the Olympics and Paralympics, worked together on Take That's Circus Tour (seen by over one million people), where Devlin had a huge animatronic elephant centre stage with the popsters cavorting around on bikes and tricycles. The show enthralled fans throughout the UK. Hopefully Devlin will pull off something as spectacular for 2012.